Sonnet 116: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
Written By William Shakespeare
Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds is a poem published by Shakespeare in 1609. The sonnet gives out the main definition of ideal admiration. The first quatrain carries the message that love is not changeable. In the second quatrain, he says that it is fixed like the north star is to sailors. Then in the third quatrain, he went on to say that it does not change even with time “Time’s fool“. In the last part, the couplet, the writer attests to his definition of true love; he said “If this be error and upokn me proved; I never writ, nor no man ever loved”.
Poem
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.
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